Pulitzer Prize

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October 21, 2022
TheGrio reviews the revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play, 'Top Dog/Underdog,' starring Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
October 7, 2022
Annette Gordon-Reed, who integrated Texas' Conroe ISD in 1964, visited and dedicated a school named in her honor in the…
January 15, 2022
Activist-journalist Ida B. Wells' legacy lives on in Barbie's Inspiring Women Series, with help from great-granddaughter Michelle Duster.
July 6, 2021
Hannah-Jones told Gayle King she's rejected the hard-fought tenure offer wrung from her alma mater to join the esteemed HBCU…
June 12, 2021
The Pulitzer awards were announced Friday during a remote ceremony that honored the best work in journalism and the arts…
June 11, 2021
Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed the police killing of George Floyd, has been honored by the Pulitzer Prize Board.
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January 12, 2021
Hundreds of scholars, authors and historians wrote an open letter calling for Trump's impeachment today, saying he's not fir for…
May 4, 2020
Ida B. Wells is honored by the Pulitzer Prize committee over a hundred years after her pionnering work helped civil…
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April 27, 2020
In a tweet, President Donald Trump questioned whether reporters who won “Noble Prizes” for their work on the Russia investigation would…
July 2, 2019
A prank phone call led police to the home of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Leonard G. Pitts Jr., where he was…
Aretha Franklin thegrio.com
April 16, 2019
Aretha Franklin received the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation honor posthumously, she is the first individual woman to earn the prize…
July 28, 2016
NEW YORK (AP) — James Alan McPherson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning story collection "Elbow Room" and a longtime faculty…
May 14, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times on Wednesday announced that executive editor Jill Abramson is being replaced by…
July 20, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - You cannot replace the work of a photojournalist such as John H. White. His spirit is just…
October 2, 2012
POST SCRIPT'D - To Kill A Mockingbird, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, is among the top 10 most-banned…
July 17, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and one of the most widely read…
June 7, 2012
EBONY. - The Library of Congress is to announce Thursday that the next poet laureate is Natasha Trethewey, the Pulitzer…
October 20, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Laurence Fishburne is the narrator for an upcoming PBS documentary on black workers in the post-slavery…
February 2, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Sanaa Lathan will star in the world premiere of Lynn Nottage's new play, "Meet Vera Stark"...
January 13, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Winfrey tells Piers Morgan in an interview for his new CNN talk show that it was…